Quite often I give people the advice to change their WordPress permalink structure, this post details the why and, more importantly: how to make such a change without losing the traffic that you already have. It includes a new tool built by yours truly to help you create the necessary redirects. Keep on reading! Why…
Sending Reliable Email with Postmark
Reliable email delivery is important to your business: your website probably has a contact form for hiring inquiries; your web application(s) rely on email for interaction with your clients, heck, you might even rely on your server to send email for e-commerce transactions. If those emails do not reliably reach you or your (prospective) customers,…
Questions and Answers
Last sunday evening I started taking questions on my Facebook page, and I promised to answer them in a blog post here, so here we go: If I have just made changes to my WP site, does it help to toggle the cache plugin? Absolutely. My SEO plugin force refreshes the cache because otherwise people…
(Collaboratively) Translating Yoast Plugins
I’ve been bugged for over 2 years now by people who wanted me to make it possible to translate my plugins into their language. Only a few of my plugins so far have had proper internationalization options, mostly due to me being lazy busy with other stuff. This is now changing, rapidly, though! Last friday…
Reviews, Testimonials and Surveys!
This is a quick post to let you know thatI’ve started doing plugin reviews again, starting with Gravity Forms and I’ve also started with reviews of WordPress themes, starting with a review of Genesis. I’ll be reviewing themes regularly, but only if they work with my WordPress SEO plugin, to avoid confusion. Today is also…
WordPress SEO Theme Compatibility Survey
Quite often now, I get the question which themes work well with my WordPress SEO plugin. The honest answer is that I know only a few by heart because I haven’t tried them all. Now I know I have a quite active user base for my WordPress SEO plugin and therefor, I’ve decided to try…
VPS.net issues: what’s up and what will they do about it?
When I posted my interview with Terry Myers about cloud hosting, I wasn’t really prepared for the backlash that would come in on that post. Quite a few people responded and a lot of them weren’t too happy. On top of that, there were several instances of downtime in both the AMS and several US…
Discuss: The Page Title in WordPress Themes
WordPress is a content management system. It allows the user to create and edit types of content, be them post, pages or custom post types and classify them with taxonomies, categories, tags or custom taxonomies. Almost every bit of content a WordPress site outputs is easy to control by the maintainer of that WordPress site.…
Why not updating your Core, Themes & Plugins is Stupid
This morning I woke up to 3 email messages and 2 Skype messages from people telling me my site was hacked. I’ve had better mornings, as you can imagine. Luckily, through CodeGuard, I was able to determine what had changed in the last period. You know what? It was my own stupid fault: I hadn’t…
Cloud Hosting, Cloud Servers, what’s the difference?
Recently VPS.net introduced Cloud Hosting, a new solution that differs a bit from their VPS Cloud Servers. I’m very, very happy with that product. Finally there’s something in between WestHost hosting, which I’ve been loving and promoting for a few years now but really is only for the beginning blogger, and the far more advanced…
